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wickedwords: Smarm, Emo Porn, and Peak Moments: Are they the same thing? - today's question is: What is the difference between Smarm, Emo Porn and a Peak Moment or Money Scene? -- wickedwords: A request for the Hurt/comfort and fan history people - I'd like to get some people to work on the History of Hurt/comfort fandom. Things I'd like to know would be: What were the big Hurt/comfort stories in your fandom? Did any of them have huge impact? Can someone talk about 'brain damage' stories, and 'illness hurt/comfort'. -
- brown_betty: Dick Grayson in a fake moustache and glasses - There is a story I will read every time I see it, no matter how many times I see it: Our Hero is undercover, and surrounded by badguys, but someone there, either someone else undercover or someone in trouble, begins to suspect Our Hero is not actually the villain they pretend to be. -
- bop_radar: Vidding chat: Planning vids - How do you get from the idea phase of vidding to the laying-down-clips-in-the-timeline phase? -
- bop_radar: Vidding chat: First vids - What was the first vid you made and what made you take the plunge into vidding? If you haven't (yet) made a vid yourself, feel free to tell us about the vids you dream of making one day. -
- cupidsbow: Australia in fiction - You know what it makes me wonder, though? It makes me wonder if the stuff I write set in other countries sounds off to the people who live there. -
- miyuki_mina: [in fanficrants] Being strong women =/= hating our vaginas - A woman can choose to perform ANY kind of stuff she wants without ANYONE looking down on her - looking down on a feamle because she'd sew clothes and bake muffins rather than shoot others and be a martial artist is actually ANTI FEMINIST. -
- seperis: recording history - See, the thing is, the wiki is a lot of things to many people, but it's, for me, a living memory. -
- cupidsbow: Secret wishes - When you sign up for exchanges, do you ever have a secret wish to be assigned someone in particular? Do you squee when you see their name on the list of people who are taking part? -
- zelempa: Fanlore thoughts - Do you think it's a good idea to have pairing pages in addition to character pages on the fanlore wiki? -
- telesilla: FanLore.... - But still, our history is important and I think that this project is important as well. I'm watching several pages and have done an edit here and there. I wish there were some way I could team up with someone who can write in the wikipedia style and work with them to get some of the stuff in my head into the wiki. -
- laceymcbain: Writing Disconnect - reading one's own work - Have you ever had that experience when you go back and read something you wrote a long time ago, a story you've almost forgotten existed, and you read it with completely new eyes, and you think, "I wrote that!"? -
- xparrot: fan types - I've had a theory for a while that there are two fundamental types of fans - the intellectual/analytical kind, and the emotional kind, and major fan conflict and wank can arise when these two types interact, because they approach fanning differently, and therefore have a difficult time understanding where a fan of the other type is coming from. -
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ide_cyan |
5:52p | Cyanobacteria FTW! I read to the end of the chapter on geology in Angier's The Canon last night. Wheee, username pride! Cyanobacteria poison our lakes nowadays, but it's because of them and their ancestors that the Earth's atmosphere is full of breathable oxygen! | ||||||
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metafandom [ inalasahl ] |
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rpg_adverts [ girl_friday ] |
2:22p | The premise// Taken and held// Rules// Application The Last Stand is a post season 2 supernatural game. Apps are accepted on a first come first serve basis. Originals are accepted | ||||||
| newscientist | 9:00p | Early birds do best with changing climate Birds that haven't adjusted to the realities of a warming world are worse off than their more flexible counterparts, suggests a first-of-a-kind study 
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| newscientist | 9:00p | Blood tests could eliminate Down's miscarriage risk Thanks to two new genetic tests, a drop of mum's blood could soon be all it takes to tell whether an unborn baby has Down's syndrome 
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yonmei |
9:20p | A thought for Nanowrimo I have had what may be an idea for Nanowrimo this year. Supposing that a native of the 21st century were cast back fifteen hundred years or so: what, in all seriousness (if one was not a Connecticut Yankee) would constitute your superiority over the time locals? Most modern education and training would be dependent on modern science and technology. A doctor trained in the 21st century who was landed back in the 6th would probably find most useful a basic knowledge of germ theory - not something you actually have to be a doctor to know. How many doctors could manufacture a general or a local anaesthetic from 6th century technology? How many people trained in modern surgery could operate when they had no anaesthetic to use on their patients? How much modern medicine is mostly about learning the modern pharmacology - and how many 21st-century doctors could recognise anything useful in 6th century materials? I know how to make bread in a gas or electric and have an idea of how to raise a wild yeast so that the bread rises. (I've never made sourdough leaven from scratch, but in principle I know how that works.) But most 6th century people didn't eat much bread because it required an oven to bake it in, and in any case I know enough to know that baking bread in a wood-fired oven was a skill in itself - given the properly made oven I'd probably be able to learn how, but I have no notion how I'd make one. I can make the most basic kind of bread quite well - mix ground wheat or buckwheat or oatmeal or corn, cook over an even heat on a flat griddle - but even that I've only made on a gas flame and a (relatively) modern cast iron griddle, which provides a steady heat and an even surface. Virtually everything else I know how to make is much more dependent on modern gadgets or supplies. Gardening? Well, given a modern iron spade and a supply of good earth and seeds from packets, I can grow things, sometimes. I'm literate, which would be a useful skill in the 6th century, assuming anyone could get over my being female: but although I could probably learn to understand Old English, I would need to learn all over again how to write it. And any other part of the world would be even worse. Being literate isn't much use if no one else can read what you can write. I could teach children how to read and write modern English, of course.... ...but the one skill I have which could potentially be worldchanging (and would certainly be an highly-employable skill) is arithmetic. It's not that I'm that good at arithmetic by 21st-century standards: but being able to use (what we call) the Arabic system of numerals to do calculations, at a time when the invention of zero was still being discussed philosophically in Hindustan, would give me an advantage - and knowing the techniques of calculation which either no one did yet or only a few mathematical scholars, would be an advantage that no one could beat until, well... either I taught other people or they learned from me. How fast would Arabic numerals catch on if one rather odd clerk was using them? It took two or three centuries for the system to filter into Europe via Arabia, and a couple of centuries before it got out of Hindustan. But everywhere it's gone, it's taken over eventually. How fast would it take over when it was just being used? Anyway. That's my thought. Hapless 21st-century-ist in 6th-century island, attempting to earn a living as a secular clerk... or possibly deciding to become a nun, atheist or not. Current Mood:  artistic | ||||||
| newscientist | 8:06p | Space rock found on collision course with Earth For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth fortunately, it is too small to cause damage 
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rpg_adverts [ disney_mod ] |
4:22p | ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} disney_u - Walt Disney University RPG Welcome to the magical world of Walt Disney University. Set in the present day in sunny Santa Monica, California, Walt Disney University (WDU for short) boasts 4,000 undergraduates, 1,000 graduate students, and a 10:1 student:staff ratio. Known for its excellent academics, NCAA Division I athletics, and plethora of student activities and Greek life, WDU is the ideal university for almost everyone! Game characters are based on characters found in Disney or Disney/Pixar animated films, shorts, and television series. Play as your favorite Disney character! You determine their background, name, year of school, and major. Walt Disney University RPG. Be our guest, and join the magic! Premise | Characters | Application | Rules Most Wanted Characters Housing | Majors | Clubs, Sports and Activities | Resources disney_u | disney_ooc | ||||||
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rpg_adverts [ advertisemyrp ] |
3:35p | Durmstrang Uber Alles - a Durmstrang-based HP game on Inksome
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rpg_adverts [ mankind ] |
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rpg_adverts [ advertisemyrp ] |
3:28p | Pentamerone - Fairy tales and folklore RP on Inksome!
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| newscientist | 5:47p | Hurricane-sized whirlpools spotted on the Sun The whirlpools had been predicted to occur when hot plasma cools and sinks back into the Sun now they have been seen for the first time 
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| newscientist | 4:50p | Satellite galaxies cling onto their haloes A simulation of the way outsider galaxies like the Milky Way are drawn into larger clusters explains how they can cling onto their star-forming ability 
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| lachola | 5:36p | My first step into the world of health Consisted of me getting violently ill. It’s lovely to have the grunge swamp sickness that kids always get and then proceed to pass on to everybody they know in the first weeks of school. Of *course* there’s nothing you can do to cure this grunge swamp sickness except let it run its course. And of [...] | ||||||
| newscientist | 3:03p | West putting climate treaty in jeopardy, China warns Rich countries are failing to deliver on promises and threaten "son of Kyoto" global warming pact with failure, top climate envoy says 
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| freemacware | 3:26p | iTunesMenu  iTunesMenu is a menubar that helps you see what song is playing in iTunes. iTunesMenu has options for controlling iTunes with hotkeys, and showing Growl notifications when the song has changed. iTunesMenu uses Shortcut Recorder to capture hotkeys. controller growl hotkeys itunes menu menubar shortcuts songscontroller, growl, hotkeys, itunes, menu, menubar, shortcuts, songs | ||||||
| newscientist | 2:15p | AIDS and cervical cancer discoveries scoop Nobel prize Two virologists who discovered HIV, and a third who showed that a virus causes cervical cancer, share this year's Nobel prize for medicine 
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| ozarque_lj | 1:32p | Personal note; cognitive meandering... Yesterday -- only the second Sunday in my learning-to-drive-again project -- my driving got cancelled. I had planned to drive all the way to town [the town where I need to be able to go to the post office and the grocery and similar truck] and then turn over the car to George to drive us home. That would have been a good plan and a pleasant drive, but Providence provided me with a case of stomach flu that made going anywhere a very bad idea. The best-laid plans, and all that. I was disappointed, and cross, and am hoping that we can try again on Wednesday afternoon, when George assures me that traffic will be almost as light as it is on Sunday afternoon. I'm choosing Wednesday because Monday and Tuesday we're supposed to have thunderstorms all day and all night, and I don't think that it would be wise for me to try to drive in a thunderstorm at this stage of the project. I did manage yesterday to go out and do my first bittersweet-harvesting. Our bittersweet crop this year is just amazing ... endless inches of rain will do that ... and I wanted to be sure to cut enough for two or three decent winter bouquets and two or three decent wreaths, just in case the two days of storms make hash of the rest. And I did manage yesterday to discover that although all year I've been saying I'm 73, that's false; I'm only 72. We are all aware that I'm math-challenged, but it does seem that I should have been able to add six and two and get eight. I woke up at three a.m. with two things on my mind: stomach cramps, and the fact that six and three could not possibly add up to eight. 1936; born. 2008; still here -- but not 73. Sheesh. Cottonpick. I am in the final stages of the two big projects that have had me tied up in knots since mid-summer -- that's the new edition of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, and the Huge-Emergency-Rush-Project -- and am looking forward ... in a gingerly fashion, since often there are afterpangs with the HERP client that mean I don't get loose on schedule ... to living a more normal elderlife. Including having more time for LiveJournal. And more time for housework and yardwork. And more time for writing sf fiction and poetry. And more time for making Christmas gifts. And I have learned my lesson: Next time I am offered a Huge-Emergency-Rush-Project I will remember to turn it down. One last thing.... I want to let you know, for the record, that if there any of you who would like to step up and defend John McCain and Sarah Palin, it's okay to do that. This is a free-speech zone, and your opinions are welcome here. | ||||||
| midearthnews_lj | 12:46p | Volume 50 / Issue 3 Volume 50/Issue 3
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| newscientist | 12:29p | Invention: Aviation special looks at the latest patents that could take the world of aviation and space exploration to new heights 
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| newscientist | 12:00p | World's mammals are in crisis, Red List reveals A massive assessment of the planet's mammals finds one in three marine species, and one in four on land, are being pushed towards extinction 
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| newscientist | 9:31a | Why nature can't be reduced to mathematical laws A team of physicists claim to have a mathematical proof that some things will always be impossible to describe computationally (full text available to subscribers) 
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yonmei |
9:39a | On back rubs Yesterday, while having tea and engaging in feminist abuse of the novel Charlie Stross was kind enough to give me, I noticed that feorag had a sore neck. So I offered to see if I could rub it out for her: in fact, I offered three times, and she finally accepted, and I spent fifteen minutes or so trying to get that nasty knot in the muscle of her neck rubbed out (and am not sure how successful I was). This morning I read this post on unfogged, and I thought how much I hate people who repetitively offer a solution to my problems when I'm not sure I want to accept/that it's the right solution. How far is offering backrubs (or neckrubs) like offering advice? Current Mood: contemplative | ||||||
| Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | ||||||||
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rpg_adverts [ frcmods ] |
9:02p | Multi-Fandom Game  You are in Foresthill Rehabilitation Center. You know why you are here. You are a danger to society, and we do not allow anything to threaten our citizens. If you feel that you have been wrongfully accused, you are welcome to your beliefs. The Core does not make mistakes. There will be no second chances. You are not allowed to leave. You have been fitted with an H5 tracking computer chip. It cannot be removed unless it is deactivated. Should you try to remove it without deactivating it, the chip will explode. Should you try to leave Foresthill Rehabilitation Center and cross the surrounding fence, the chip will explode. Should you attempt to cause harm to one of the guards, your powers will be shut down. Should you continue to pose a threat to the guards, the chip will render you unconscious and you will be penalized. The residence you woke up in now belongs to you. All of your previous assets are now the property of the Republic of the Core. Power and cable will be on for two weeks, at which point your first bills will arrive. You have been provided with a PDA. If there is no activity noted on it for over two weeks, you may be investigated. If you do not attempt to escape or cause problems, this will be the last you will hear from us. You are now in the hands of the four capable Heads of Foresthill Rehabilitation Center. The events schedule will be mailed to you shortly. If you are later considered rehabilitated and qualify for re-introduction into society, you will be contacted. We no longer care what you do. We will not be watching you. But others will be. FRC is a brand new pan-fandom game that welcomes characters from any canon. It hasn't started yet, but applications are open and we're hoping to get up and running soon! Full Storyline - Rules - FAQ - Newbie Guide Taken/Held/Wanted - Character Application - Gang List Contact List (Friends Only) - Map | ||||||
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rpg_adverts [ ameliegiselle ] |
10:27p | mankind! I'm looking for a Daniel Radcliffe for Paris as the guy in her ballet class that she has a huge crush on. Also a Dominic Cooper as the boy in Madrid who likes her but who she is trying to avoid because he has a girlfriend. Both would have lines with at least two other people if they came. | ||||||
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